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Article #19980Re: Second floppy on Falcon
From: Howard Chu
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:48
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:48
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In article <72073@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: >Peter Missel writes: >j> WHAT??? NO EXTERNAL FLOPPY???? >>Why not connect a Floptical to the SCSI-2 port? Try this on the Amiga 1200.. > >How about $300 as a reason..? > >Given a retail price of $799 for the entire Falcon, do you really think >it's reasonable to tell people to expect to pay more than 40% of the >cost of the computer to just add a floppy disk drive..? > >How do you explain to someone who would like to add a $42 floppy drive >that it's going to take a Floptial 21 Meg drive to accomplish what they >want to do..? Dunno. Kind of the same as trying to explain why I had to spend $150 for a 5-1/4" floppy drive for my $79 Atari 800XL way back in 1985. I did it, nonetheless, and I wasn't the only one in the world to do it... -- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov!hyc From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) Subject: Re: Second floppy on Falcon Message-ID: <1992Dec21.234828.28998@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL References: <A59959@HB.maus.de> <A45838@K.maus.de> <72073@cup.portal.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:48:28 GMT Lines: 22